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Mitchell Stevens, A History of News 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) Stevens, a professor of journalism at New York University, gives an interpretive and analytical history of news, starting at the very beginning of oral news systems, through the advent of print to the television age. He connects journalism history to contemporary news issues such as objectivity and sensationalism. Includes a detailed timeline summarizing the history of the news. Peter Pringle and Michael F. Starr, Electronic Media Management 5th ed. (St. Louis, MO: Focal Press, 2006) The fifth edition of this text features updates that reflect the enormous changes that have taken place in recent years - the Internet as an important information transmission format, and convergence among media. This edition also covers the latest information on broadcast and cable regulations and policies. C.A.Tuggle, Forrest Carr, and Suzanne Huffman, Broadcast News Handbook: Writing, Reporting, Producing in a Converging Media World, with Student CD-ROM and PowerWeb (Spiral-bound)(New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006) The goal of this handbook is to enables students and professionals to become better writers and better broadcast journalists. The authors have a combined 50 years of broadcast journalism experience, and give discussions on crafting language and becoming an effective storyteller. Neil Postman and Steve Powers, How to Watch TV News: Revised Edition, Rev. Upd. (Paperback) (New York: Penguin, 2008) In l992, the late Neil Postman, a pioneer in media education and author of the best selling Amusing Ourselves to Death, and Steve Powers, an award-winning broadcast journalist, concluded that it would be a big mistake to rely exclusively on television for accurate news of the world. Their view was that so-called news shows glut viewers with celebrity coverage instead of telling them things they really should know. Today, these problems have intensified, with the power of the Internet and the abundance of cable channels. This newly revised edition addresses the evolving technology and devolving quality of America's television news programming. Dan Gillmor, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People (Paperback) (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media Inc., 2006) Thanks to the Internet, a new kind of grassroots journalists are reporting the news in their own style. Using laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras, these reporters are transforming the concept of news from a lecture into something more interactive. In We the Media, nationally acclaimed newspaper columnist and blogger Dan Gillmor describes this phenomenon. Films, Videos and Movies Good Night and Good Luck (2005, rated PG) is a film that portrays the conflict in the 1950s, between television journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, and his actions with the Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations. Murrow, and his staff in the CBS newsroom, headed by Fred Friendly ( George Clooney) stand up to corporate pressures to expose the lies and scare mongering tactics used by McCarthy during his communist "witch hunts". Broadcast News (1987, rated R) is a comedy that presents a realistic picture of the frenetic world of television news. Stars Holly Hunter as the producer, William Hurt as the anchor, and Albert Brooks as the correspondent. Network (1976 rated R) is a brilliant satire of the television business, especially as the game was played in the mid-1970s. It tells the story of a fourth place network that will do anything for ratings. Directed by Sidney Lumet, starring William Holden, Faye Dunaway, and Peter Finch, written by Paddy Chayefsky. All the President's Men (1976, rated PG) A classic, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as real-life Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, investigating and breaking the story of the Watergate scandal. |